Corporate Finance : A Focused Approach(Second Edition)

Drawing from their experience with comprehensive textbooks Ehrhardt & Brigham focus on the critical financial concepts, skills, and technological applications required by every MBA in the 21st century workplace. The result is a lean textbook that (1) provides an in-depth treatment of all essential topics in corporate finance yet (2) can be covered in its entirely in a single semester.

We realize you can’t get an MBA in five minutes. But just as an artist quicklysketches the outline of a picture before filling in the details, we can sketch the key elementsof an MBA education. In a nutshell, the objective of an MBA is to providemanagers with the knowledge and skills they need to run successful companies, so westart our sketch with some common characteristics of successful companies. In particular,all successful companies are able to accomplish two goals…